1. Chapter 10, Shaw and Lee: Why do violence and the threat of violence exert social control on women and do you see connections between violence against women and violence against LGBTQIA?
Violence and the threat of violence exert social control on women because of men’s
“Masculine entitlement“this is described in chapter 10 in Shaw and Lee’s, it also has an impact because it causes women to live in fear. Men’s masculine entitlement is men’s portrayal of being the strong, powerful, and the thought they should be feared, to gain these roles violence comes into play. This structure create a unsafe environment for women because women are expected to know the right people, places and words to say to a man due to the fear of consequences, if she does not. This threat of violence affect other communities as well like the LGBTQIA community because in this structure it prays on anyone thought to weak or vulnerable. The LGBTQIA is often attacked by these structures …show more content…
White men have make and enforce the law of who can have or do what. This social inequality effects people of color, women and the LGBTQIA community by not considering these citizens a person. These laws shows that white men are high beings and more valued. In chapter 11 of Shaw and lee it goes into the nineteenth amendment how African Americans were only considered two-thirds of a person, laws like these have changed but the affects still the 21st century because black people are still killed, missing, raped without any justice or sympathy. The effect on these social inequality are shown by being looked at as less valued or no being hired because of their birth name. For change to happen laws need to change and an acknowledgment of histories